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“When I was seventeen years old, music had become my counselor when I needed guidance, my friend when I felt alone, my father when I needed love, my preacher when I needed hope, and my partner when I needed to belong.”
― Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“You’re past is stone, but your future clay. And you decide the shape of the life you’ll make.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mime Order

“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising

“Be silent and learn something.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“It is a beautiful mask, but all masks fall. In the end.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling

“His voice was a shadow. "It roots me again. You remind me what it is to have a home.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling

“It can be a lonely feeling, not knowing where you fit.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling

“There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough, they become armour.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Ask me not if God exists, but why he's such a prick.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“When there’s little you can do, do what little you can.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books, and he’ll know a million truths. Put him in a room for a year with silence, and he’ll know himself.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Aim your heart at the fucking world.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“A smile curled Jean-François’s lips. “I had heard you were a man of ill temper.” “Interesting. I hadn’t heard of you at all.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“No sin so dangerous as the sin that is chosen.

No sin so glorious as the sin that is shared.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“In death and truth I see, through blood and fire, now dance with me.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“See, I never understood that. Why pride is looked on as an evil. You work hard at something you're not born good at? Damn right you should be fucking proud.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“I've stood in the houses of the holy, priest. I've read his scripture cover to cover, I've sung praises to his name, and I tell you now and tell you true: One hand holding a sword is worth ten thousand clasped in prayer.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“In justice and hope, no hope there be, In mercy and bliss, no bliss for thee, In death and truth, no truth I see, Through blood and fire, now dance with me.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“What a world this would be, were it not held wholly and solely in the grip of stubborn old men.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Fuck me,” I breathed.
‘“The Testaments name sodomy a deadly sin, so I’d rather not.” Talon offered a brief smile. “But you’re very pretty, de León, and I appreciate the offer.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“The only thing worse than a fool is a fool who thinks himself wise.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Love is a single sun in a heaven full of stars.”
― Jay Kristoff, Aurora Rising

“Because the best way to learn to win is by losing.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

“Sometimes the past won't just die. Sometimes you have to kill it.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

“Death is the only promise we all keep.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave